Current Events > Imagine being so triggered from "Ok Boomer"

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I just want to clear up a little something something about Ok Boomer. This is a response to decades of folks of any age literally chastising gen x, millennials, and gen z for basically just trying to live. We have debated everything youve wanted us to, argued about false science, been called lazy, useless, and accused of closing down all chain restaurants and malls. The whole thing boils down to this, its a yeah, whatever. Its exhaustion. This isnt an attack, its shrugging our shoulders. Its, yeah, sure mom. Its, I aint gonna debate you on this anymore Uncle Brian. Its me at seventeen during thanksgiving dinner just rolling my eyes while being told yet again by some relative how wrong I am. Its being disrespectful but only because you dont see us as adults. Most of us are forty.

And lets be real clear who this generational eye roll is at. Its not at those folks who havent denied science, history, or reason. This is not at those of you who marched with Dr. King, protested Vietnam, or rallied about climate change when Earth Day was founded. Aint no body coming for yall. This is about those who have mocked us, telling us we were too young at THIRTY to run for government. The same ones that then turned around and called us bartenders and waitresses and whatever instead of Congresswoman. They did this because we had to get by somehow while we worked our way to the top. We had to fight in a different way.

This is for calling us communists because we wanted to be able to eat. This is for bombing our future. This is for our children, your grandchildren. This is about having to beg to no longer sit at the kids table while we approach our midlife crisis. This is about you refusing to retire but then saying we have no ambition while you still occupy the space we cant access because you are there.

This is not about age. This is about an abuse of power. About you mocking us and ridiculing us. This is NOT targeted at the teachers who supported us when you wouldnt listen. To the lady who taught us how to make signs to protest. This isnt aimed at the trans mama who finally gets to live her authentic life at 65. No, this is directed squarely at everyone who called us stupid but then asked us how to open a PDF. This is about that we were told we needed to go college so we wouldnt flip burgers but then said we needed to be thankful for flipping burgers with our bachelors degrees but then we also turned around and said, why are you being mean to folks who flip burgers. All work has value! Maybe we should pay them $15 an hour, this is hard work. And you said we were stupid and ungrateful and wrong.

This isnt an attack. This is being done. We are tired of doing the work for you. For answering all the questions. For sending all the emails. For doing it and then you want to rip away everything weve worked for and call it your nest egg.

This is for the other folks in your own generation that youve abandoned as you gut funding to Medicaid, come after their pensions, and roll back civil rights. This is about everyone, because its no longer about you. We are plowing forward with or without you. This is about the fact that we wanted a parent to talk to us like Bernie and Elizabeth and not Trump. We want elders who respect us and elevate our voices and walk the road with us.

We will carve out the America you promised us existed. With equality and justice for all.

Ok, boomer?

adults are talking

SwayM posted...

adults are talking

Its a literal meme this guy turned into somehting revolutionary.

Is "adults are talking" the new popular response to "ok boomer"? If so that's pretty dumb.

justaguy3492 posted...

Is "adults are talking" the new popular response to "ok boomer"? If so that's pretty dumb.

Lol I literally just started using this response.

But the fact you hate it makes just me really want it to catch on.

SwayM posted...

justaguy3492 posted...

Is "adults are talking" the new popular response to "ok boomer"? If so that's pretty dumb.

Lol I literally just started using this response.

But the fact you hate it makes just me really want it to catch on.

lol We are literally engaging in "meme warfare" now.